Biography, Legal Ethics and the Climate Crisis

Abstract

This chapter suggests that lawyer biographies have proven to be a critical source of empirical material, unearthing important connections between lawyers’ endeavours and social change. Unlike most other kinds of studies, a biography can reveal how lawyers have forged identities over time, and sought to create meaning, through their work. Understanding how their identities and exercises of meaning making have interacted with legal norms, such as rules of legal ethics, can help explain how and why lawyers have either helped ameliorate or exacerbate climate change. Show more